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Onesimus Scripture - Colossians 4:18

The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace [be] with you. Amen. <[Written from Rome to Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.]>...

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Onesimus Scripture - Philemon 1:25

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen. <[Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.]>...

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Onesimus Scripture - Colossians 4:9

With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known unto you all things which [are done] here....

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Onesimus in Wikipedia

Saint Onesimus (d. ca. 90 AD) (Greek: Ὀνήσιμος, meaning "useful," also called Onesimus of Byzantium and The Holy Apostle Onesimus in some Eastern Orthodox churches) was a slave to Philemon of Colossae, a man of Christian faith. Eventually, Onesimus transgressed against Philemon and fled to the site of Paul the Apostle's imprisonment (most prob...

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Onesimus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

o-nes'-i-mus (Onesimos, literally, "profitable," "helpful" (Col 4:9; Philem 1:10)): 1. With Paul in Rome: Onesimus was a slave (Philem 1:16) belonging to Philemon who was a wealthy citizen of Colosse, and a prominent member of the church there. Onesimus was still a heathen when he defrauded his master and ran off from Colosse. He found his way...

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Onesimus in Naves Topical Bible

-A fugitive slave and subsequent convert of Paul Col 4:9; Phm 1:10...

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Onesimus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(profitable, useful), the name of the servant or slave in whose behalf Paul wrote the Epistle to Philemon. He was a native, or certainly an inhabitant, of Colosse. Col 4:9 (A.D. 58.) He fled from his master end escaped to Rome, where he was led to embrace the gospel through Paul's instrumentality. After his conversion the most happy and friend...

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Onesimus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

profitable; useful...

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Onesimus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

useful, a slave who, after robbing his master Philemon (q.v.) at Colosse, fled to Rome, where he was converted by the apostle Paul, who sent him back to his master with the epistle which bears his name. In it he beseeches Philemon to receive his slave as a "faithful and beloved brother." Paul offers to pay to Philemon anything his slave h...

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Onesimus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("profitable".) Philemon's runaway slave, of Colosse (Colossians 4:9, "one of you"), in whose behalf Paul wrote the epistle to Philemon: Philemon 1:10-16. Slaves were numerous in Phrygia, from whence Paul dwells on the relative duties of masters and slaves (Colossians 3:22; Colossians 4:1). Paul's "son in the faith," begotten spiritually while...

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